Short-lived Soninke kingdom of Sumanguru Kanté, defeated by Sundiata at Kirina.
The Sosso Kingdom was decisively defeated by Sundiata Keita of Mali at the Battle of Kirina c. 1235; the king Sumanguru Kanté was killed or disappeared, and the kingdom was absorbed into the nascent Mali Empire.
Covers the Sosso kingdom of Sumanguru and its defeat by Sundiata at Kirina.
A vivid, source-based account of medieval West Africa's great empires, Ghana (Wagadou), Mali and Songhai.